Holywell

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Holywell, from 2,326 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) to 2,553 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Holywell in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 21 Mar 2025Conditional

  extension to side of existing dwelling provision of first floor window to side gable wall and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560197

• 7 Dec 2021Conditional

  (a) alterations to the north-east façade of an existing dwelling along with internal reconfiguration of bedroom accommodation, (b) a 53.5 sqm single storey extension to the north-east façade for use as an independent living unit, providing 1 no. bedroom, shower room ensuite facility and combined kitchen/dinging/living area, (c) all associated site works and landscaping and (d) modifications to the existing foul and surface water drainage systems, (e) and the replacement septic tank and percolation area to EPA 2021

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211459

• 18 Nov 2021N/a

  (a) alterations to the north-east façade of an existing dwelling along with internal reconfiguration of bedroom accommodation, (b) a 53.5 sqm single storey extension to the north-east façade for use as an independent living unit, providing 1 no. bedroom, shower room ensuite facility and combined kitchen/dinging/living area, (c) all associated site works and landscaping and (d) modifications to the existing foul and surface water drainage systems

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211379

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Holywell.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Holywell.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Holywell.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3365 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

• Holywell, Sea Road5 sales

Name

Holywell

Area

96,697 m² (9.67 ha, 23.89 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcoole, and its townlands

Barony

Newcastle

Electoral division

Kilcoole, the unit of the census

Census 2022

12,163 people lived in 4,109 households in the Kilcoole electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 68% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Johnstown, Killickabawn, Tinnapark Demesne

Placenames

Holywell on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.